"No one in the government can go to you and say 'we need the files.'"
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"The clients are the owners of the files and there is no single point of failure," said Matt Wood, a senior researcher in the Web Security Research Group at HP Software and Solutions. Meanwhile, two Hewlett-Packard researchers plan to demonstrate a proof-of-concept browser-based darknet type of network called "Veiled" that allows for the creation of a secure, decentralized peer-to-peer network in which no client software is downloaded. Several researchers are going to release a tool for hacking into Oracle databases. Others have to do with injecting electromagnet pulses into the wiring system of jets, insecurities with Firefox plug-ins, cloud computing security issues and a new tool to send controversial news to censored countries without using proxy servers. One session deals with air traffic control security (or lack thereof). The research topics run the gamut of vulnerabilities and exploits on everything from iPhones to smart grids. "The market went down and all of this research came up." "We had been expecting 30 percent fewer attendees and in reality we're only going to have 10 to 15 percent fewer," Moss said. There's Hacker Jeopardy, Hacker Karaoke, an artwork contest, geo-caching events, a beverage cooling contraption contest, organized target shooting, a Capture the Flag penetration testing competition, lock picking workshops, a PGP Key Signing Party, DJs, a scavenger hunt, the highly popular Spot the Fed contest, a competition to find the best social engineer and a Cannonball Run car race described as "a race against time over 288 miles of road" from Redondo Beach to Las Vegas on Thursday.ĭespite the recession, both events are expected to be crowded. The presentations are usually top-notch (many of them duplicates from the more expensive Black Hat show), but Defcon is known just as much for the activities going on outside of the sessions. While Black Hat is more professional, with vendor tables in the lobby and respectable product presentations in meeting rooms, Defcon is a chaotic tableau of goth-attired groupies, script kiddies hunkered over laptops lining the hallways at all hours of the night and gray-haired hackers who were likely teens when they first started coming to the event. (Black Hat training sessions started over the weekend.) Moss also heads up Defcon's big-sister conference, Black Hat, whose briefings schedule runs Wednesday and Thursday at the more upscale but no less kitschy Caesars Palace. In addition to being a hacker playground and summer camp, Defcon is a semi-neutral ground where people who blur the lines of legality mingle with federal agents whose job it is to hunt them down. "They're letting us have access to the pool, so we'll have pool parties, and they've allowed us to do more social things that we wanted to do."
"One good thing about the downturn is that the Riviera Hotel has been easier to deal with," said Moss, who was recently named to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Started in 1993 by Jeff Moss, aka Dark Tangent, Defcon brings together some of the top security experts from around the world, along with thousands of hacker wannabes whose pranks in previous years-hacking the elevators and ATMs and cementing the toilets, to name a few-have led to bans at certain hotels.
Jeff Moss, founder of Black Hat and Defcon. The event turns part of the Las Vegas strip into a geek equivalent of "Animal House" for a three-day weekend every summer. I'm talking about Defcon, which starts Thursday and runs through Sunday. My favorite security show each year is one at which there are no sales pitches, the speakers favor black T-shirts and dyed hair over suits and ties, and the talks tend to be controversial enough to prompt legal threats and even arrests.
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